Issues with running vrecord 2018-04-23 with FFmpeg 4

[iamdamosuzuki]

vrecord stopped working out of the blue for me. I'm getting the following error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/ffmpeg/lib/libavformat.57.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/bmdcapture
  Reason: image not found
pipe:: Invalid data found when processing input

When i look at that directory, I see that I have the following libraries installed:

libavcodec.58.19.100.dylib	
libavcodec.58.dylib		
libavcodec.a		
libavcodec.dylib

Is this possibly a problem with FFmpeg 4?

[dericed]

what do you get from brew info ffmpegdecklink?

[dericed]

Also brew info vrecord, it looks like you have a very old vrecord.

[iamdamosuzuki]

I'm using an older version of vrecord. Unfortunately the latest versions of vrecord require the latest versions of the Black Magic drivers. These version of the BM software clip analog inputs at broadcast range, rendering them unusable for our purposes. The vrecord issues were discussed in ticket #209

Here's the output of the commands:

Prez5-mp:~ preservation$ brew info ffmpegdecklink
amiaopensource/amiaos/ffmpegdecklink: stable 4.0, HEAD [keg-only]
FFmpeg with --enable-decklink
https://ffmpeg.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpegdecklink/3.4.1 (7 files, 35.3MB)
  Built from source on 2017-12-17 at 14:17:29 with: --with-sdl2 --with-freetype
/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpegdecklink/3.4.2 (7 files, 35.2MB)
  Built from source on 2018-04-23 at 15:08:16 with: --with-openjpeg --with-sdl2 --with-freetype
From: https://github.com/amiaopensource/homebrew-amiaos/blob/master/ffmpegdecklink.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: nasm ✔, pkg-config ✔, texi2html ✔
Recommended: lame ✔, x264 ✔, xvid ✔
Optional: chromaprint ✘, fdk-aac ✘, fontconfig ✔, freetype ✔, frei0r ✘, game-music-emu ✘, libass ✔, libbluray ✘, libbs2b ✘, libcaca ✘, libgsm ✘, libmodplug ✘, librsvg ✘, libsoxr ✘, libssh ✘, libvidstab ✘, libvorbis ✔, libvpx ✘, opencore-amr ✘, openh264 ✘, openjpeg ✔, openssl ✔, opus ✘, rtmpdump ✘, rubberband ✔, sdl2 ✔, snappy ✘, speex ✘, tesseract ✘, theora ✘, two-lame ✘, wavpack ✘, webp ✘, x265 ✔, xz ✔, zeromq ✘, zimg ✘
==> Options
--with-chromaprint
	Enable the Chromaprint audio fingerprinting library
--with-fdk-aac
	Enable the Fraunhofer FDK AAC library
--with-fontconfig
	Build with fontconfig support
--with-freetype
	Build with freetype support
--with-frei0r
	Build with frei0r support
--with-game-music-emu
	Build with game-music-emu support
--with-libass
	Enable ASS/SSA subtitle format
--with-libbluray
	Build with libbluray support
--with-libbs2b
	Build with libbs2b support
--with-libcaca
	Build with libcaca support
--with-libgsm
	Build with libgsm support
--with-libmodplug
	Build with libmodplug support
--with-librsvg
	Enable SVG files as inputs via librsvg
--with-libsoxr
	Enable the soxr resample library
--with-libssh
	Enable SFTP protocol via libssh
--with-libvidstab
	Enable vid.stab support for video stabilization
--with-libvorbis
	Build with libvorbis support
--with-libvpx
	Build with libvpx support
--with-opencore-amr
	Enable Opencore AMR NR/WB audio format
--with-openh264
	Enable OpenH264 library
--with-openjpeg
	Enable JPEG 2000 image format
--with-openssl
	Enable SSL support
--with-opus
	Build with opus support
--with-rtmpdump
	Enable RTMP protocol
--with-rubberband
	Enable rubberband library
--with-sdl2
	Enable FFplay media player
--with-snappy
	Enable Snappy library
--with-speex
	Build with speex support
--with-tesseract
	Enable the tesseract OCR engine
--with-theora
	Build with theora support
--with-tools
	Enable additional FFmpeg tools
--with-two-lame
	Build with two-lame support
--with-wavpack
	Build with wavpack support
--with-webp
	Enable using libwebp to encode WEBP images
--with-x265
	Enable x265 encoder
--with-xz
	Enable decoding of LZMA-compressed TIFF files
--with-zeromq
	Enable using libzeromq to receive commands sent through a libzeromq client
--with-zimg
	Enable z.lib zimg library
--without-gpl
	Disable building GPL licensed parts of FFmpeg
--without-lame
	Disable MP3 encoder
--without-qtkit
	Disable deprecated QuickTime framework
--without-securetransport
	Disable use of SecureTransport
--without-x264
	Disable H.264 encoder
--without-xvid
	Disable Xvid MPEG-4 video encoder
--HEAD
	Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because anything that needs this will know where to look.

Prez5-mp:~ preservation$ brew info vrecord
amiaopensource/amiaos/vrecord: stable 2018-04-23, HEAD
Capturing a video signal and turning it into a digital file
https://github.com/amiaopensource/vrecord
/usr/local/Cellar/vrecord/0.7.22_1 (5 files, 61.4KB)
  Built from source on 2016-10-17 at 10:45:50
/usr/local/Cellar/vrecord/0.7.27 (6 files, 131.9KB)
  Built from source on 2016-12-09 at 13:57:32
/usr/local/Cellar/vrecord/0.7.27_1 (6 files, 131.8KB) *
  Built from source on 2017-03-02 at 16:16:49
/usr/local/Cellar/vrecord/2017-12-15 (6 files, 134.8KB)
  Built from source on 2017-12-17 at 14:25:57
/usr/local/Cellar/vrecord/2018-04-06 (9 files, 180.2KB)
  Built from source on 2018-04-23 at 15:10:03
From: https://github.com/amiaopensource/homebrew-amiaos/blob/master/vrecord.rb
==> Dependencies
Required: cowsay ✔, amiaopensource/amiaos/decklinksdk ✔, amiaopensource/amiaos/ffmpegdecklink --with-sdl2 --with-freetype --with-openjpeg ✘, freetype ✔, mediaconch ✔, mkvtoolnix ✔, mpv ✘, qcli ✔, sdl ✔
Recommended: xmlstarlet ✔
==> Options
--without-xmlstarlet
	Build without xmlstarlet support
--HEAD
	Install HEAD version

[privatezero]

I don't know if this is the problem, but @libbyhopfauf had a similar error today after an update - she said she was able to solve it by going into her black magic settings and resetting to 10 bit rather than 8 bit. I have pinged her to chime in!

** Edit: Looks like that fixed something on one of her computers, but she is still having the error on the other. Seems like that fix might have been addressing something else than this error.

This was her error screen:

[iamdamosuzuki]

Ok i figured out the issue. I had to roll back to ffmpeg v3.4, decklinksdk v10.1.4_3, x265 v2.5_1, and x264 vr2795 with brew switch

I realize this is sort of a nasty fix, but there's not much I can do until BlackMagic stops clamping at broadcast range. In the meantime, is there any chance of a vrecord build that's compatible with version 10.6.X of the BlackMagic drivers?

[dericed]

reopening :-P

[iamdamosuzuki]

Thanks, I wasn't sure if the BlackMagic driver issues should be another ticket or not

[dericed]

@iamdamosuzuki, I think you could still update to ffmpeg 4 as long as you reinstall bmdtools after that.

[iamdamosuzuki]

No luck. I keep getting this error when trying to brew reinstall bmdtools

==> Reinstalling amiaopensource/amiaos/bmdtools 
==> Downloading https://github.com/amiaopensource/bmdtools/archive/v0.2alpha.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/preservation/Library/Caches/Homebrew/bmdtools-0.2alpha.tar.gz
==> make SDK_PATH=/usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include
Last 15 lines from /Users/preservation/Library/Logs/Homebrew/bmdtools/01.make:
g++ -o bmdcapture bmdcapture.cpp modes.cpp /usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include/DeckLinkAPIDispatch.cpp  `pkg-config --cflags libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavutil` -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -Wno-multichar -I /usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include -fno-rtti -g -framework CoreFoundation -DHAVE_CFSTRING  `pkg-config --libs libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavutil` -lm -ldl -lpthread -framework CoreFoundation
g++ -o bmdplay bmdplay.cpp modes.cpp /usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include/DeckLinkAPIDispatch.cpp  `pkg-config --cflags libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavutil` -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -Wno-multichar -I /usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include -fno-rtti -g -framework CoreFoundation -DHAVE_CFSTRING  `pkg-config --libs libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavutil` -lm -ldl -lpthread -framework CoreFoundation
g++ -o bmdgenlock genlock.cpp /usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include/DeckLinkAPIDispatch.cpp  `pkg-config --cflags libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavutil` -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -Wno-multichar -I /usr/local/opt/decklinksdk/include -fno-rtti -g -framework CoreFoundation -DHAVE_CFSTRING  `pkg-config --libs libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavutil` -lm -ldl -lpthread -framework CoreFoundation
bmdcapture.cpp:218:21: error: use of undeclared identifier 'CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER'
        c->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
                    ^
bmdcapture.cpp:271:21: error: use of undeclared identifier 'CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER'
        c->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
                    ^
bmdcapture.cpp:312:21: error: use of undeclared identifier 'CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER'
        c->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
                    ^
3 errors generated.
make: *** [bmdcapture] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

If i'm switched to FFmpeg 4.0 I get the following error when running vrecord -p

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.4.1/lib/libswresample.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/opt/ffmpeg/lib/libavcodec.57.dylib
  Reason: image not found
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/x264/lib/libx264.152.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ffplay
  Reason: image not found
/usr/local/bin/vrecord: line 1024:  5446 Trace/BPT trap: 5       bmdcapture -m ${standard} -V "${video_input}" -A "${audio_input}" -c 8 -s 32 -p "${video_bitdepth}" -F nut -f pipe:1
      5447                       | ffplay -v info -hide_banner -stats -i - -window_title "mode:${runtype} - video:'${video_input_choice}' audio:'${audio_input_choice}'" -vf "${playbackfilter}"

[libbyhopfauf]

This does sound similar to the issue we are encountering. Resetting the Blackmagic settings seemed to work for one of the computers, but not for the other. I updated the macOS, which always caused problems. Playback, audio check, and edit settings are all still working normally, but record is not. I tried a fresh install of vrecord and bmdtools, but no change.

Here is the error message that I keep getting:

'dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/ffmpeg/lib/libavdevice.57.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/qcli
  Reason: image not found
/usr/local/bin/vrecord: line 1330:  2841 Broken pipe: 13         tee >("${FFPLAY_DECKLINK[@]}"                 -v info -hide_banner -stats -autoexit -i -                 -window_title "${WINDOW_NAME}"                 -vf "${PLAYBACKFILTER}")
      2843 Abort trap: 6           | qcli -i - -o "${LOGDIR}/${ID}${SUFFIX}.${EXTENSION}.qctools.xml.gz"
[nut @ 0x7fdbb381c600] EOF before video frames0KB sq=    0B f=0/0   
pipe:: Invalid data found when processing input
Vrecord is analyzing your video file. Please be patient.
qctools XML /Users/mac1/Desktop/Logs/test_ffv1.mkv.qctools.xml.gz is empty or does not exist!
QCTools analysis is complete.

2018-04-24T13:26:53 - File did not pass vrecord policy check for FFV1 video and may not conform to digital preservation standards. Try another file?
 2018-04-24T13:26:53 - See /Users/mac1/Desktop/test_ffv1_mediaconchreport.xml for a full MediaConch policy report.
Vrecord is attaching logs to your Matroska file:
The file is being analyzed.
The changes are written to the file.
Done.
The file is being analyzed.
The changes are written to the file.
Done.
Error: The file '/Users/mac1/Desktop/Logs/test_ffv1.mkv.qctools.xml.gz' could not be opened for reading: open file error.
Vrecord is done attaching logs to your Matroska file!
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions...18 completed.

[Process completed]`

[dericed]

Does a ‘brew reinstall qcli’ fix it?

[dericed]

Actually @libbyhopfauf try brew reinstall qcli --HEAD

[aeschweik]

I was able to recreate the error message Morgan got upon brew reinstall bmdtools, and then got Libby's error message when I tried to run vrecord. Running brew reinstall qcli --HEAD and brew reinstall mpv fixed all vrecord modes for me.